Joe Stanley's Guardian article

[Jamer]

Just thought I would flag this up as a very cohesive, measured and well written piece. Very well done to the author.

I'll leave it to someone with a modicum of IT skills to provide a link and mods feel free to merge if this has already been flagged up elsewhere.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

British farmers are not the enemy in the battle against the climate crisis | Joe Stanley

UK livestock production is among the most sustainable in the world, says farmer and conservationist Joe Stanley

www.theguardian.com

 

[Jamer]

British farmers are not the enemy in the battle against the climate crisis | Joe Stanley

UK livestock production is among the most sustainable in the world, says farmer and conservationist Joe Stanley

www.theguardian.com

Thank you

 

[An Gof]

Just thought I would flag this up as a very cohesive, measured and well written piece. Very well done to the author.

I'll leave it to someone with a modicum of IT skills to provide a link and mods feel free to merge if this has already been flagged up elsewhere.

Yes, excellent article. The comments rather worrying and less inspiring.

 

[Clive]

Yes, excellent article. The comments rather worrying and less inspiring.

best to not read them !

they do highlight well what we are up against though !

 

[Muddyroads]

I think we need to read them to have an understanding of the arguments against us, no matter how irritating. I’m in the middle of writing my usual piece for the village magazine and will be taking note of both the article and comments. Nice to see this in the Guardian of all places!

 

[Clive]

I think we need to read them to have an understanding of the arguments against us, no matter how irritating. I’m in the middle of writing my usual piece for the village magazine and will be taking note of both the article and comments. Nice to see this in the Guardian of all places!

I agree - they should be read, it shows just what we are up against here so why we need to take it seriously and invest heavy in the counter debate

 

[kfpben]

I’m pretty sure that if our forefathers could see into the future and read the idiotic comments below a Guardian or Daily Mail online article democracy would have never been allowed.

 

[delilah]

Nice to see this in the Guardian of all places!

The Guardian would claim to be the 'greenest' of the national papers.
UK agriculture and the environmental movement are each others greatest allies; neither can achieve its objectives without the support of the other.
As their carrying of this article shows, provide them with the environmental argument for home production in a cohesive manner and they will print it.

Edit: now i've actually read it....he's still giving the NFU line that methane from cows is a problem, this is the sort of thing that gives the antis something to get their teeth into. Less apologizing, more evangelizing !

 

[Two Tone]

Well done Joe Stanley and also the Guardian for publishing it.

I’m not sure where he got his information regarding grassland holding 6,000,000 tonnes of CO2 and sequestering another 2,400,000 tonnes each year.
I believe these figures are actually a massive underestimation, especially when nitrate fertilisers are used.

Some research I have done on this farm showed that we sequester approximately 2.5 times more CO2 tonnes each year than the tonnes of produce we sell!

 

[Bald Rick]

I say “Well Done” to Ms Jane McDonald who was counter arguing all the anti farming comments

Personally wouldn’t register to the Guardian though. I may vote Loony but I have my limits